National News

Mar 29, 2019

2:38PM

Enforcement Directorate ,ED has attached the property belonging to Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah.The property is being held in the name of his wife and daughters.He has been involved in carrying out illicit activities along with his accomplice Mohammad Aslam Wani, who is an activist of banned terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad,JeM. Shabir Ahmad Shah was using Aslam Wani as a carrier for collecting Hawala money sent by his Pakistan based sympathisers through Hawala operators to deliver in Srinagar.

During the investigation, Shabir Shah has admitted that he is not having any source of income and failed to explain any legitimate source of money for his expenses. The investigation revealed that he was in touch with the global terrorist Muhammad Saeed, chief of banned outfit ‘Jamat-ud-dawa’ based in Pakistan. It was also revealed that Shabir Ahmad Shah had been receiving money for carrying out separatist activities in Jammu and Kashmir and has acquired various properties through a maze of dubious transactions. The attached property is located in Effandi Bagh, Rawalpora in Srinagar.